Watanabe1-4 at 2019 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

SKIP
Tomoya
Watanabe

Third
Akira
Otsuka

Second
Naoki
Kaneko

Lead
Hiromasa
Yamamoto

Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Watanabe lost 11-4 to Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN), droppimg another game, 5-5 to Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN). Watanabe lost 7-1 to Takimi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Watanabe lost 8-2 to Kantaro Kawano (Sapporo, JPN) where Watanabe responded with a 6-2 win over Tsubasa Nakagawa (Obihiro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Watanabe earned 1.201 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 259th place overall with 6.797 total points. Watanabe ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.201 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Koto Inaba, Kento Nishida
Wakkanai, JPN
2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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